This blog is a personal opinion. I have experienced many of the following things throughout my time playing Minecraft.

Face it, Minecraft is highly addictive. Millions of people put their pickaxes in their hands and go mining, building, crafting, fighting for hours on end. Do you know why? Because Minecraft has so many things to offer to gamers of all types. People who like Combat, Building or Creating things all feel at home when they play Minecraft. Then there are people at school who for example might not have such great social life, like a nerd. On Minecraft the nerds are the cool kids and it's easy to make friends so it doesn't matter if you have no friends in real life.
Minecraft sounds like a good place. It is, that's the problem. When you have nothing in your life good except Minecraft... That's what you're going to do. Play Minecraft. For hours and hours. After a few months of playing it takes over your life.

Hundreds of Thousands of people are addicted to Minecraft. No matter how much people deny it they are. Despite the fact that it declines your health by not getting enough physical activity it also will probably effect your school and education. There are good and bad things to do with Minecraft and school. Before I started playing Minecraft I knew barely anything about computers and I was like 15 wpm. I'm now 82 wpm and I know a lot about computers. That's great for my technology education at school. Also I have improved a little at mathematics because of crafting. But I find myself always trying to scam days of school because I NEED to play Minecraft. My school attendance this year is 70%. You might say it's my parents fault for falling for it but you can't blame them 1. I'm really good at faking sick.. 2. They mean well and are just trying to be good parents and help you.

Not just attendance can effect you. It's also your GRADES. I'm finding it really hard to concentrate at school. Well hard to concentrate on anything that doesn't have a screen. I will watch TV, play Consoles but I'd rather play Minecraft. When I'm not on any of them I feel angry. Yeah, that's messed up seen is though before I started playing Minecraft I was a very fit, healthy kid and had good-ish grades. Keep in mind I have oppositional defiant disorder so when anyone tries to take Minecraft away from me I get very moody.

All this just comes together to say daily things like education that mean a lot in the end are failing a lot due to Minecraft.

On the other hand I'm making money from running a server already but I don't think that will be good for a permenant job when I grow up. (I'm 14)

Any comments are excepted but please no hate. I know its bad that I play Minecraft so much but hopefully I'm not alone.